Abstract
This article examines how in Peru LGB experiences of return migration expose multiple forms of exclusionary incorporation that mark the home—in terms of family, city, and nation—as a site of simultaneous safety and fear. I suggest that Peruvian return migrants who identify as lesbian, gay, and bisexual find themselves in the difficult and dangerous position of experiencing violence against them—homophobic practices, jokes, silencing, and discrimination—in order to be at home with their families, and in the city post-return. These forms of post-return violence exclude them even as they are otherwise seemingly incorporated back into their families and communities.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 916-931 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Sexualities |
Volume | 22 |
Issue number | 5-6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 1 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Research was made possible in part through funding from the College of Arts & Sciences Summer Research Travel Fund and the Marie Rich Endowment at the University of Kentucky.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2018.
Keywords
- Citizenship and belonging
- Global South sexualities
- Peru
- return migration
- transnationalism
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Gender Studies
- Anthropology